OEMA Newsletter
An Electronic Newsletter
of The Oregon Educational Media Association
Volume 15 No. 2
October, 2002
PRESIDENT'S
MESSAGE from Kelly Kuntz
I look forward to seeing you at the incredible OEMA/WLMA
conference this week. I would love to talk to you about
your role in our profession and in OEMA. I should be fairly
easy to locate. I am the 5' 2" blonde with short
hair walking around with a shepherd's crook trying to
make sure the OEMA business meeting ends on time! Seriously,
as you know, we are a
volunteer organization and we always need new faces. We
are only as strong as the involvement of our membership.
OEMA needs you, and you need OEMA......... who is always
working behind the scenes, on the stage, and out in the
world to promote library media teachers and to help everyone
understand the invaluable, essential role we play in educating
students. And if you notice, anyone with a conference
ribbon dangling from their
badge, please thank them. As you can imagine, putting
on a conference of this magnitude requires intestinal
fortitude, unbounded enthusiasm and the ability to function
with minimal sleep. I salute them and know that we will
have an exciting time at Libraries Without Boundaries!
LIBRARIES WITHOUT BOUNDARIES
THIS WEEK
LWB is almost here! Registrations have now exceeded the
1000 mark so it's going to be BIG and EXCITING. Don't
miss this special joint conference featuring authors,
speakers, and technology experts on a par with an AASL
national conference. The complete conference program is
now on our website. http://www.librarieswithoutboundaries2002.org
Registration: It's not too late to register,
but you will need to do it on site. Registration will
open at 7:00 am Thursday morning in the lobby of the Jantzen
Beach Doubletree Hotel and remain open until 9:30 pm that
night. Friday registration hours are 7:00 am -- 4:00 pm;
Saturday 7:00 am -- 1:00 pm.
Ticketed Events: While the Lowry luncheon
on Saturday is just about sold out, there are tickets
available for some other speaker events. Meal counts need
to go to the hotel on Monday so if you have not bought
a ticket to the Dessert with Virginia Euwer Wolff on Thursday
evening or the banquet with Richard Rodriguez on Friday
evening, please reserve a ticket in time to be included
in the meal count. You can email Eve Datisman or Pat McKinley
and order tickets and pay on site. No guarantee that there
will be any other tickets for sale on site.
Eve Datisman mzinfo@mail.wavcc.org
Pat McKinley pamckinley@aol.com
Workshops/Extended Sessions (Thurs. or Sat)
Spots remain in the extended sessions of Jamie McKenzie
and Bernie Dodge. What a special opportunity to work hands-on
with either of these two educational technology leaders
in a wireless iBook lab. Some of you have been clamoring
to see Mike Eisenberg for years. Well, he's here and there
is still room in his sessions on Thursday. If you want
to get stoked, go see Mike.I think you can email Eve or
Pat NOW to reserve a spot if you haven't done so yet,
and pay on site.
OEMA Luncheon: Where are you Oregon people?
Numbers for our association luncheon are surprisingly
low. The luncheons are great fun and very inspiring. Support
the professional organization that is dedicated to representing
you and your professional interests. Again, email Pat
or Eve and purchase a luncheon ticket before meal counts
are finalized.
Lodging: The Doubletree Inns in Portland
are both near capacity as of this date.
You still can get a room across the street at the Oxford
Suites...just a short walk from the Doubletrees. Use our
code OWL or say WA OR Library media conference and you
will get
the conference rate.
OXFORD SUITES
(800) 548-SUITE
Fax (503) 735-1661
12226 N Jantzen Drive
Portland, Oregon 97217
(503) 283-3030
Email MaryMcClintock marymc@telport.com if you have any questions.
EXEC BOARD MEETING
NOTES FROM SEPTEMBER 28
-Follett is generously providing the conference registration
costs for the Library Media Teachers of the Year
-Jefferson County Librarian, Melanie Lightbody will be
recognized for her support of school library media specialists
in Madras
-The OEMA awards for Librarian of the Year and Administrators
of the year will be presented during the luncheon
-It was agreed that committee and board member year terms
are the same
as the membership year with the transitional meeting to
still be in August. Job descriptions need to be reviewed
to reflect this.
-There was discussion regarding board member meeting attendance
and
participation with a recommendation that an attendance
policy be developed for board meetings, similar to those
set for corporate boards
-The proposed budget was examined and refined. It will
be presented at the full board meeting October 12.
OREGONIAN ONLINE AVAILABLE
FROM OSLIS
OSLIS adds the
Oregonian to the research resources available to Oregon's
K-12 schools for the 2002-03 school year with the Newsbank
subscription being paid by OSLIS, OEMA, and OETC. Access
to articles from 1988 to the present from the Oregonian,
will provide all Oregon students with information from
the state's major newspaper. Coverage for the Oregonian
from Newsbank includes full-text of all staff-written
news features, special interest stories, editorials, columns,
letters to the editor, sports reports and much more. K-12
students can do research in the Oregonian from school
and home, as well as from most Oregon public, community
college, and higher ed. institutions. With access to both
the Oregonian and EBSCOhost, OSLIS takes another step
in reaching it's goal of being the place on the Internet
where students easily and safely are successful in completing
their research and becoming information literate. Watch
the OEMA listserv for information about trainings.
OEMA LIBRARIANS
VISIT CONCORDIA CLASSES
A group of teacher librarians, both present and retired,
had a fun entertaining evening at Concordia University
on Tuesday, Sept. 24th talking to students who are either
student teaching presently or will be shortly. When the
call went out through the OEMA listserv, these librarians
volunteered to visit Jan Albrecht's masters class in education.
-Edith Fuller from Portland Public Professional Library
-Deanna Draper, retired from Beaverton, now teaching in
PSU library program
-Marian Creamer now at PSU and founder of Children's Literature
Alive!
- Martha Dechard, teacher librarian at David Douglas HS
-Janet Setness, Library Media Specialist at Marshall HS
in Portland
-Sherry Cox, Media Specialist at C.F. Tigard School
-Jamie Dougherty, Media Specialist at Fowler MS in Tigard
- Melanee Lucas, Media Specialist at Terra Linda Elementary
in Beaverton Each volunteer librarian introduced and told
a little about themselves, and then
asked the students for questions. By far, the main idea
that students left with was that library teachers are
there for them and want to be at their service. The students
were amazed that as teachers they could actually give
their library teacher an idea of what they wanted to do
and when they walked away, have a plan in hand of how
to do it themselves or more importantly to have someone
to collaborate with. The presenters reported getting excited
seeing the thrill on these students' faces. The presenters
all agreed that the best place to start with research
skills was the OSLIS web site, and each student went away
with a bookmark showing how to find it on the web.
Your OEMA colleagues spoke at two classes that evening,
and went away feeling such a huge reward for taking the
time to let future teachers know what to expect. If you
get the opportunity to participate in one of these sessions,
please just do it!
IMPROVING LITERACY THROUGH
SCHOOL LIBRARIES WINNERS
The Improving
Literacy Through School Libraries Web Site was published
listing the 94 successful applicants Information on the
site includes the amount of each award and a brief description
of their proposed project. There were no grants awarded
to Oregon school libraries.
STORIES BY THE SEA STORYTELLING
CD AVAILABLE
The Children's Services Division is proud to announce
the debut of a storytelling CD featuring tellers from
the annual "Stories by the Sea" event in Newport,
OR. The CD was produced in Portland by Caleb Miles (production
donated!) and all the tellers donated their time and stories
for this wonderful collection. The CD includes stories
from Yvonne Young, Esther Stutzman, Angela Reynolds, Heather
McNeil, Elizabeth Falconer, Rick Huddle, and Rebecca Cohen.
In addition to the order information below, it will also
be on consignment at Music Millennium in Portland, and
eventually, there will be an order form on the CSD website.
All proceeds go to Children's Services Division, for programs
and events such as Stories by the Sea! The price of each
CD is$10.00. Order
form is available.
MULTNOMAH COUNTY
LIBRARY'S LIBROS SITE
Check out Multnomah County Library's LIBROS site. Funded by a grant from
the Library Services and Technology Act through the Oregon
State Library, the site is an improved version of the
1999 Spanish Website. Aside from guides to local resources,
it also includes hundreds of links to Web resources in
Spanish. Each listing has an annotation to help patrons
determine the usefulness of a site. Children, teens, parents
and teachers have special sections targeted to their needs.
The site is also friendly to patrons with low literacy
levels, as audio and video clips of library employees
explain aspects of the site.
OREGON STATEWIDE E-REFERENCE
TASK FORCE WEBSITE
The Statewide E-Reference Task Force was formed last spring
by State Librarian Jim Scheppke to design a collaborative
E-reference support service to serve end-users and library
staff. The task force has worked throughout the summer
months to design a proposal. A Web page is now available
for the Statewide E-Reference
Task Force with information about its work, including
its charge, meeting minutes and membership. The proposal
will be posted when it becomes available.You may contact
task force members through e-mail links.
REGISTRATION IS OPEN FOR ITSC
The 4th Annual Instructional Technology Strategies Conference
is in Eugene, January 19-21, 2003. This year ITSC offers
five new session topics and new highly respected educational
technology facilitators. ITSC 2003 will feature the use
of PDAs to create a paperless conference. For more information
and to register online, please visit the ITSC conference website.
ARTHUR'S 100TH EPISODE AND
THE 100 BOOK CHALLENGE
On October 14, PBS Kids will air "Elwood City Turns
100!," the 100th episode of the award-winning children's
show Arthur. In celebration of this event, Arthur and
his friends invite classrooms across America to join the
100 Book Challenge.
What's the 100 Book Challenge? Classes will keep a record
of the books they read. The goal is to collectively read
100 books between October 14 and January 31. Starting
October 1, book charts, a send-home family letter, and
ideas for teachers will be provided on the Arthur Web site. The challenge begins on
October 14. When your class has reached the 100 book goal,
use the entry form provided on the Arthur Web site to
submit your book list and the titles of your class's three
favorite books. In response, your class will receive a
100 Book Certificate from Arthur.
BIG6 INTERACTIVE WEBSITE
Mike Eisenberg and Bob Berkowitz are proud to announce
an interactive web site designed to help students learn
and use the Big6 Skills for information problem solving.
The site, Big6 Kids, contains helpful hints, templates,
worksheets, songs, games and fun to help children master
essential information problem solving skills. The website
provides three levels of materials for kids (K-2, 3-6,
7-12) as well as resources for teachers and parents.
GROLIER NATIONAL LIBRARY
WEEK GRANT DEADLINE IS OCTOBER 15
U.S. libraries of all types are invited to apply for a
$4,000 National Library Week Grant for the best library
promotion/public awareness campaign during National Library
Week (April 6-12, 2003) that promotes the role librarians
play in the 21st century. The grant is sponsored by Scholastic
Library Publishing. An application form and guidelines
are available.
LIBRARIAN RECUITMENT
AND EDUCATION INITIATIVE
In mid-August, IMLS posted the most recent draft of guidelines
for the
Recruitment and Education of Librarians for the 21st Century
grant program
on its Web site. Since February 2002, when the President
included $10 million for the initiative as part of his
budget request, IMLS has been soliciting input from the
library and education communities to shape priorities
that are consistent with the scope of the program and
best meet library service needs. All interested parties
are encouraged to review the draft guidelines.
THE DIGITAL DISCONNECT
The Pew Internet Project has just released a report "The
Digital Disconnect:
The widening gap between Internet-savvy students and their
schools".
It showed that three in five children under the age of
18-and more than 78%
of children between the ages of 12 and 17-go online. One
of the most common
activities that youth report undertaking online is schoolwork.
It's a
qualitative study of the attitudes and behaviors of Internet-using
public
middle and high school students from across the country.
Read the full report:
Download the full
report in Adobe PDF format.
OREGON AUTHOR
AND TEACHER OFFERS GRANT WRITING HELP
Judy Shasek is offering assistance in developing a literacy
project that might earn award dollars from The "Improving
Literacy Grant" to any OEMA members. Judy has been
a grant writer and recipient of local and national grant
awards. See http://www.e-wally.org/about.htm.
The eligible counties are posted on the Improving Literacy
Through School Libraries Web Site http://www.ed.gov/offices/OESE/LSL/.
Judy will work with you to create a similar project in
your District - there is no charge for my expertise. I
would like to see an Oregon community on the winning list
for 2003.
E-mail Judy at e.wally@bendcable.com
PUBLISHING WITH STUDENTS:
A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE
Chris Weber, Portland teacher, has published a new book
Publishing with Students. It gives tips about how to empower
students with student-run magazines and newspapers, successful
bookmaking, how to take advantage of the instantaneous
dissemination of information using the Internet, and a
variety of e-mail publication projects. His book contains
a wide variety of writing including class books, school
magazines, class newspapers, schools' e-mail book projects,
essays, books, poetry and art. A special chapter is devoted
to the increasing use of the Internet as a vehicle for
instant publishing and long distance communication. Information
on Publishing with Students is available online at www.heinemann.com
(800-225-5800) or by sending an e-mail to Chris at chriscarlweber@earthlink.net.
CORRECTION: OSLIS WEB
LIBRARIAN
My correct website address for Donna Cohen, OSLIS web
librarian is http://www.dcoheninfo.com.
The editor apologizes to Donna for an incorrect address
in the Sept. newsletter.
CALENDAR
OEMA Newsletter -- Editor: Sheryl Steinke,
Eugene 4J Schools
Published monthly on the 5th of the month September through
May; also available on the web. To receive the OEMA Newsletter
by email, subscribe to the OEMA mailing list using the
form at http://www.oema.net and then scroll down
to OEMA ListServe(s).
Send news items for the Newsletter to:
* Fax: 541-687-3463
* Email: steinke@4j.lane.edu
* Mail: 2405 Blacktail Dr. Eugene, OR 97402
Deadline: 1 week before publication, except 2 weeks for
the January issue.
